While sleeping soundly last night, all warm in my bed, I woke myself up.
How??
Well, by nothing else but clenching my jaw.
Weird!
Now that I realized I clench my jaw, it makes sense. I know now why my jaw often hurts all day long, it's because in my sleep I am stressed or something and end up clenching my jaw.
I am going to have to figure out a way to fix this. We will see. Maybe when I can run again I will stop, but we will have to wait a few more weeks to figure that out.
I hope running does help! It's likely from stress. A few years ago I had this problem. It got so bad that every time I chewed my jaw popped and made grinding noises. And then it started locking shut all together. Scary. I had to go to physical therapy for it and get this special retainer thing to wear at night so I couldn't clench my jaw.
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